Dave McClure, Angel Investor

Dave McClure has been an engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor in Silicon Valley for 30 years. He founded Practical Venture Capital and 500 Startups, and worked at Founders Fund and PayPal. He has invested in hundreds of startups around the world, including 40+ unicorns and 10+ IPOs. He made the Forbes Midas List of top 100 global VCs in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, he founded Practical Venture Capital, a VC secondary firm that provides liquidity solutions for LPs and GPs in early-stage VC funds. They specialize in buying LP & GP fund interests in microVC funds at years 5-10 (“skip the J-curve”), as well as direct secondary in breakout companies within those portfolios. Some of his personal investments are in Terraformation, Ezra AI, Tribal, MoBagel, Headout, and Greentoe.